These images were taken from Shawn Brixey's installation, "Alchymeia." The biotechnology-based ice crystal project uses human hormones as nucleating agents that guide crystal growth, reflecting our presence in the crystals' atomic structure.
(top) The installation's telepresence apparatus, including freezer, ice crystal housing assemblies, Internet server, and "live" video microscopy webcam.(middle) A detail of crystal formation as seen via "live" Internet digital microscopy streaming video.
(bottom) Ice crystal housing assemblies and cloned ice crystals.